For what it's worth - we know the author selection dropdown UI isn't very good and needs improvement. Also, we're still in the weeds of our big migration, but are looking forward to building a way to merge (and split) Works.
> It is better to empty out all the author records first by switching all the > works to the correct author, and then do the merge. Interesting. It is important to create redirects though, for merged authors. I wonder if that would break with this approach. Cheers, george On 3/17/11 9:49 PM, Sarah Breau wrote: > Patrick, my workaround is to edit the author name by adding something unique > to > it (e.g. change it to "David Clarke this is the one"), then wait for the > database to update, then go into the work and change the author to "David > Clarke > this is the one" then wait for the database to update, then go back into the > author record and change the author name back. It takes FOREVER but it works > every time. ;-) > > Karen, I don't see how your workaround will work. OL only shows a certain > number > of authors in the author drop-down field, and if there are dozens with your > author's name and your author only wrote one or two books, your author will > not > show up on that list. Merging is imperfect because when you do an author > merge, > OL does not change the author field in all the works to the same author > record, > it just groups author records together. This has caused me problems. It is > better to empty out all the author records first by switching all the works to > the correct author, and then do the merge. Of course, this would not work in > Patrick's case because there are too many author records to select the one he > wants in the author field... > > I would say that after the inability to merge works, this is the biggest > problem > I have in editing on OL. > > Sarah > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
